The heart of the vacuum furnace system is just as critical as the heart of the human body. Just as it is important to keep your heart healthy and pumping, it is crucial to keep your vacuum furnace system healthy and pumping.

Wisconsin Oven Corp. shipped an indirect-gas-fired walk-in oven to a manufacturer in the technology industry. The heavy-duty oven, which will be used for heat treating materials used in the production of vehicle batteries, has work-chamber dimensions of 12 feet wide x 6 feet long x 10 feet, 6 inches high. Guaranteed temperature uniformity of ±10°F at 190°F was documented with a nine-point temperature uniformity survey in an empty oven chamber under static operating conditions.

Accurate Brazing, based on market feedback, added a second hot isostatic press (HIP) from Quintus Technologies. Both presses are equipped with Quintus’ proprietary uniform rapid cooling (URC) technology, which combines HIP and heat treatment in a single process, and will be installed at Accurate Brazing’s newest facility in Greenville, S.C. The process, called high-pressure heat treatment (HPHT), streamlines the steps involved in material densification and heat treatment. It also enables all processed components to cool uniformly, resulting in minimal thermal distortion and non-uniform grain growth.

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems built and commissioned a high-temperature car-bottom furnace for a manufacturer of excavating equipment based in the southern U.S. The furnace has a work zone of 84 inches wide x 144 inches long x 48 inches high with a 16,000-pound load capacity and an operating temperature range of 1000-2282°F (538-1250°C). It will be used for stress relieving, normalizing and other high-temperature processes. The furnace, which replaced an existing furnace, gives the manufacturer improved operating efficiency and higher-temperature processing capabilities.

In most thermal process systems, information is trapped at the equipment level. Which doesn’t do you any good unless you’re standing in front of it.

No. 1039 is a 2000°F (1093°C) inert-atmosphere furnace used for heat treating turbine components.

Through a multiyear endeavor, Fabrisonic has been working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop and qualify ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) heat exchanger devices.

We live in the real world, and things break down or otherwise drift from factory settings. Patchwork repairs (that all too often become permanent) and temporary fixes are poor substitutes for properly planned and well-executed maintenance activities.

Serving as an alternative to traditional process-cooling methods, this technology improves operational costs and enhances equipment efficiencies.

Founded in 1978 by William Pociask, P&L Heat Treating and Grinding began operations in a 2,500-square-foot building with only two employees, two austenitizing furnaces, two tempering furnaces and a rotary surface grinder.